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Think about how much money openai could make _just_ by getting referrals for agentic work flows (ie: help me plan my vacation).

The thing that people are missing is that openai is a platform like google's, and there are a million different businesses they can expand into.

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Sure, but I think the question is who will win the domain specific use cases (delivery, not API). Delivery of the agentic workflows is up for anyone to win (players like Perplexity, Lovable, etc) and OpenAI/Gemini/Anthropic is in a way only a vendor to that by providing what will become a commoditized function calling API/MCP provider.

Open AI has 10 times the active users of any of it's competitors, including google.

You can just ask chat GTP to help you plan your vacation.

> The thing that people are missing is that openai is a platform like google's, and there are a million different businesses they can expand into.

That should make it easy for them to choose one and start already, then. I wonder why they haven't started. /s

Exactly my point! They're up against thousands of founders who are moving on domain specific use cases faster

I havent seen a single case apart from coding where end user has appreciated a clanker integration into their software!

They have started. Their strategy is just for others to build it on top of their platform. And not build one, but hundreds of businesses. Much faster way to grow. Why retain 100+ internal product/integration teams when you can have 100+ external teams that will pay you and do the building, the trying and failing, in each niche.

The things that actually work out you can just buy or outcompete later. But that is another phase, perhaps 1 decade from now. Right now it is about starting alll the snowballs.

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